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— Gerard Manley HopkinsContext: You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing, interest ceases also... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest;... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest.
Letter to Robert Bridges (24 October 1883)

— Gerard Manley HopkinsContext: Shape nothing, lips; be lovely-dumb:
It is the shut, the curfew sent
From there where all surrenders come
Which only makes you eloquent.
"The Habit of Perfection", lines 5 - 8

— Gerard Manley HopkinsContext: Nothing is so beautiful as Spring—
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
" Spring http://www.bartleby.com/122/9.html", stanza 1

— Gerard Manley HopkinsContext: I say more, the just man justices;
Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is —
Christ — for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.
"As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame" (undated poem, c. March - April 1877)

— Gerard Manley HopkinsContext: I have desired to go
Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
And a few lilies blow.
And I have asked to be
Where no storms come,
Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,
And out of the swing of the sea.
" Heaven-Haven http://www.bartleby.com/122/2.html", lines 1-8

— Gerard Manley HopkinsContext: Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!
O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!
The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!
" The Starlight Night http://www.bartleby.com/122/8.html" (1877), lines 1-3

— Gerard Manley HopkinsContext: I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman’s mind to be more like my own than any other man’s living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.
Letter to Robert Bridges (18 October 1882)

— Gerard Manley HopkinsContext: Glory be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim.
" Pied Beauty http://www.bartleby.com/122/13.html", lines 1-3

— Gerard Manley HopkinsContext: The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened, to any degree heightened and unlike itself, but not... an obsolete one.
Letter to Robert Bridges (14 August 1879)

— Gerard Manley HopkinsContext: Thou mastering me
God! giver of breath and bread;
World’s strand, sway of the sea;
Lord of living and dead;
Thou hast bound bones and veins in me, fastened me flesh,
And after it almost unmade, what with dread,
Thy doing: and dost thou touch me afresh?
Over again I feel thy finger and find thee.
" The Wreck of the Deutschland http://www.bartleby.com/122/4.html", lines 1-8

— Gerard Manley HopkinsContext: The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed.
" God's Grandeur http://www.bartleby.com/122/7.html", lines 1-4